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The school that connects STEM, badging, and life beyond the classroom

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These are important skills for students to master, not least because of the growing demand for science and STEM professionals. Here in California, like other states nationwide, the STEM job market is rapidly growing but students are still graduating without the skills and knowledge needed to fill these high-paying jobs.

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It’s Time to Remake the Makerspace, But Schools Shouldn’t Go It Alone

Edsurge

Middle school students have used a mix of laser cutters, three-dimensional printers and wood-cutting tools to develop turbochargers and crash test protection devices that solve real-world issues in the automotive industry. Yet there are still barriers that we must overcome if we hope to realize the full potential of makerspaces.

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It includes a variety of assessments, multiple-choice and claim-evidence-reasoning assessments, along with extensive support for teachers such as embedded professional development and instructional resources to support a differentiated learning experience for each student. to streamline workflows for assessment and data analysis.

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An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment. Tinkering Fundamentals: A Constructionist Approach to STEM Learning. Digital Badge: Rockets to the Rescue! via Canvas.net.

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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

Marketplace K-12

Organizations receiving students’ testing records would have greater power using blockchain technology to assess those results and calculate scores in ways that suited them, Sony argued. Another question stems from the fact that much of the interest in blockchain is based on the Bitcoin experience, or private blockchains, Levin said.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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